{"id":466,"date":"2006-11-03T14:29:37","date_gmt":"2006-11-03T13:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.briangreene.com\/bhg\/2006\/txt-is-the-word\/"},"modified":"2006-11-03T14:29:37","modified_gmt":"2006-11-03T13:29:37","slug":"txt-is-the-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/2006\/txt-is-the-word\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Txt’ is the word."},"content":{"rendered":"

[first posted to wavelinks 7<\/a> in May 2001]<\/p>\n

15 Billion Text messages a month are clocked by the world’s 600+ network
\noperators.<\/p>\n

SMS – Short Messaging Service or Text (aka ‘Txt’ in the classrooms of
\nIreland) has come of age.<\/p>\n

It really took off with the arrival of pre-paid mobiles in Europe. Cost conscious teenagers (and adults) are happily thumbing away 160 character messages (msgs) to each other. 10P per message for the sender – no cost for receiving.<\/p>\n

Txt allows you to keep it short in a busy world, the awkward keypad entry is less of a discomfort because the message length is a maximum 160 characters. This has aided the evolution of a new sub language of ‘txt speak’, i.e. ‘R U able 2 C me now?’ = ‘are you able to see me now?’<\/p>\n

TV networks and radio stations are beginning to opt for Txt as the preferred medium of interaction while the telex, fax, phone and even e-mail fade to the background.<\/p>\n

News delivery and m-commerce are making their way on to mobiles with text services, bypassing the less preferred WAP technology that lacks Text’s low cost, e.g. a IEP10 pre-paid card will buy 100 txts, but the same IEP10 lasts only 50 minutes on WAP. Plus, Txt is more interactive: with the send and receive function, the end user can enjoy 200+ messages before top up, while a WAP user rarely interacts with anything more than a dumb Web server. Expect to see more B2B and field use of Txt by Irish businesses in the coming years.<\/p>\n

Put those shades on – the future of Txt is very bright. Read more …..
\nhttp:\/\/www.smspress.com\/ | http:\/\/www.gsmworld.com\/technology\/sms.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[first posted to wavelinks 7 in May 2001] 15 Billion Text messages a month are clocked by the world’s 600+ network operators. SMS – Short Messaging Service or Text (aka ‘Txt’ in the classrooms of Ireland) has come of age. It really took off with the arrival of pre-paid mobiles in Europe. Cost conscious teenagers… Continue reading ‘Txt’ is the word.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-technology","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}